Learning to Think Korean

A Guide to Living and Working in Korea

L. Robert Kohls

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English

Intercultural Press
01 October 2001

Living & working abroad

Kohls shares a feast of Korean culture: a ricebowl of history and tradition complimented by an array of spicy tidbits that capture the reader s attention like a mouthful of kimchi. Based on personal experience, he provides critical incidents that explore the more puzzling aspects of Korean culture. Kohls explores Korean values traditional values, value changes over the past forty years and projected values for the early decades of the twenty-first century. He is equally insightful when it comes to discussing the cultural patterns and practices of the workplace. He takes on management style, personal issues, networking and

pull,

negotiating style, persistence, key Korean business relations and more. To a greater extent than most other Asisan countries, Korea adheres to the traditional collectivist and Confucian traits of harmony, hierarchy, ingroups/outgroups, status, and proper behavior. According to Kohls, these traits plus the more Westernized values of the younger generations and the veneer of modern urban savvy surface in surprising combinations in personal and workplace relationships often where they are least expected.

By: L. Robert Kohls
Imprint: Intercultural Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781877864872
ISBN 10: 1877864870
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 October 2001
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

L. Robert Kohls has thirty years' experience as an intercultural trainer and trainer of other trainers; he has worked, lived and travelled in more than eighty countries, with extensive stays in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He is also a founding member of SIETAR International.

Reviews for Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to Living and Working in Korea

Robert Kohls' book is impressive in its depth of understanding of the ways in which cultural differences affect behavior, the ways in which we really are not all alike underneath. .